{"id":165,"date":"2003-08-21T01:58:07","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T06:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/08\/21\/debian-linux-users-are-quite-spread-ou"},"modified":"2006-12-15T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T03:33:28","slug":"debian-linux-users-are-quite-spread-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/08\/21\/debian-linux-users-are-quite-spread-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Debian Linux users are quite spread out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a82'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found this pie chart at NetCraft:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.netcraft.com\/archives\/2003\/08\/debiangeog.gif\"><br \/>\nIt was really educational for me to see the distribution of known sites running Debian Linux.   In the U.S. it&#8217;s really tiny compared to everywhere else.  I can only attribute that to RedHat and it&#8217;s strong ties with the commercial sector.   While Redhat isn&#8217;t that bad I prefer Debian much more if I&#8217;m going to run Linux.   The upgrade path of Debian is very smooth.  I&#8217;ve slowly upgraded a Debian machine I had for months without a major hiccup even up to a new kernel version and major release difference.   Redhat it seems harder to do this right.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you ask me just run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\">FreeBSD<\/a> instead if you&#8217;re on x86.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this pie chart at NetCraft: It was really educational for me to see the distribution of known sites running Debian Linux. In the U.S. it&#8217;s really tiny compared to everywhere else. I can only attribute that to RedHat and it&#8217;s strong ties with the commercial sector. While Redhat isn&#8217;t that bad I prefer Debian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}